Match-splint



July 8,` 1930-l v B. M. BoGosLowsKY HATCH SPLINT MACHINE Filed Ilay 28, 1927 A Smm Patented .hay s, i930 IBORIS M. BOGOSLOWSKY, FERGUSON, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR, :BY IVIESNE l-SLSSIGN- MENTS, TOTHE LUN'VER:SAL MATCH CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

MATCH-ermita! 'MACHINEY Application filed May 28,

This inventionrelates to a machinel yfor making cards of match splints of the .type employed for making .books of paper matches, from a continuous strip of stock material.

My invention relates particularly to a machine which employs reciprocating" cutting elements operating to cut continuous strip y stock into individual strips, equal in size to a plurality of match book cards and applyingthem to an intermittently moving conveyor during a single operation and subsequently cutting and displacing the individual splints of .said cards while they are attached to the conveyor; and also, causingsaid conveyor to proceed through mechanism for applying paratlin and head material to the ends of the splints so formed, and subsequently, through a dryer by continuous motion with provisions for ldriving that part of the conveyor continuously and the part adjacent the cuttersintermittently. Y

Accordingly, it is one ofthe objects of my invention to providea machine of the above described type in which a conveyor has a por` v A view partially in cross section of the conveyor tion in motion at a continuous rate of travel and another. portion vmoving intermittently.

f Y vAnother object of my'invention'isto provi'dev a reciprocatingcutting 'element forengaging continuous strip stock to cut it into individual strips of match cards and fixthem on carrying elementsof a conveyor ina single operation. y y

' Another object' of inv invention is to provide reciprocating cutters which are capable of operating on the individual cards for cutting the splints and displacing them in alternate directions without displacing the cards bodily, whereby this operation can be effectedk while the cards are being carried `by the conveyor.

Another object of my invention is to provide a conveyor which is capable -of assuming the driving relationship with` the'sproclret, with either face in contact with the sprocket.

1927. serial No. 194,989.

Another object of my invention is to provide in combination with the4 reciprocating cutters, means for stripping the cut match splints from the cutting elements, .whereby the cutting elements may be withdrawn from the splints without displacing them during the retrograde kmovement of the cutters.

' My invention isan improvement on the natch. splintV forming ir'iachineV disclosed in t e having swinging carriers, but embodying differences in the type of cutting means and also in the details of construction.

These and other objects are accomplished by means of the arrangement disclosed on the accompanying sheet of drawings in which- Figure 1 is ak fragmentary side elevation partially in cross section of a machine constructed in accordance with my invention.

F igure 2 is a perspective view of my conveyor and carriers in a position which they assume in passing over the conveyor guide 27 shown at the left hand side-of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is ,a fragmentary perspective and carriers horizontally Vdisposed as positioiied during their path of travel under t-he reciprocating cutting elements.

The various novel features of the invention will be apparent from'the following description and drawings and will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawing, it will be noted, that my 'invention relates'to a machine having a frame 10 mounted on a stand 11 and in which the shaft 12 is journaled.

Mounted on the shaft 12 is anl idle sprocket 13 having teeth receiving openings 14 in its periphery. At theopposite end of the frame t 10 aretwo pairs of shafts, first 15 and 16 'carrying-pulleys 17- and 18 adapted to cooperatewith the upper run of the conveyor' and secondly, shafts 19 and 2O carrying pulleys ,21.and 22 respectively, adapted to copatent to Ferretti No. 1,605,336issued November 2, 1926, employing a conveyor' V which had grate with the lower run of the conveyor Y ,Positioned tan entially to the periphery of and at points tgliametrically opposite the idler 13 are conveyor guides 23 and 24 positoned in parallel relation, the guide 23 havan arcuate end 25 which is positioned elosel adjacent to the periphery of the idler,

and t e guide 24 has a downwardly curved lo endto properly guide the conveyor into Po'l'xolthaleft of the machine as shown in the ligure, are guides 27 and 28 which carry the conveyor belt and which form parts of an ,5 "eiongated'd er, paraffin applying, and head material app ying machine, not disclosed, but may beof an suitable construction as 'for instances, that s own in the Ferretti patont above referred to.

i zu It is to be understood thatthe guides 23,

94, 2T and28 are positioned in spaced rela- `tion, one each su porting a flexible steel belt 2li-having space along its length, tooth elements 300D opposite sides thereof, the teeth i on one side being drilled as at 31 to receive tnmnion 32 ofthe swinging carriers 33 'strips 29 o `the `conveyor and the guides in wed relation referred to, in the manner s own in Figure 2. Y

- Referring to Figure 3, it will be noted that the conveyor element 23 is provided with ya 34 adapted to engage the weights 35 0n the swinging carriers, whereby carriers .35 will be held in horizontal position during the l1gol-tion of its travel where the conveyed ea are operated upon by the reciprocating .cutting elements. Attention is directed to the pins 36 provided on the carriers in such a manner that they project upwardly when the carriers vare `llaliorizontal position as when passing under the? reciprocating cutting elements and as shownin' Figure 3. Mounted' at the right llmdnd of the machine is a roll of paper stock 37 mounted in a suitable stand so that the leading edge may be passed under the -l'ull 379. and introduced between the guides 38 and 39 so as to be presented to the feed ,'50 rollers 40 and 41 `which rotate in the directionsindicatedby the arrows. These rollers tn relmountedl on the shafts 42 and 43 respectlvely, which are driven with intermittent `motion through suitable mechanism not F `shown, but which may be of any of Vthe well `known mechanical movements for effecting such a drive.

The paper stock fed by they rollers is next lntroducedbetween the guide plates 44 and 60 44",the latter of which has at one end a shirring 1 plate 45. Provided at a point wspaced from the ends of the guide plates44 'IIzlld 44 is a stop element 46 which is posi- ...lllolled `in the path of the advancing paper S0 IB to form a stop, therefore, in a manner the space between the flexible` to determine the amount of stock which will project beyond the shirring plate 45. Mounted in the frame 10 are two guide ribs 47 having a reciprocating block 48 slidably mounted therebetween, the lower end of which carries the cutting blade 49 adapted to cooperate with the shirring plate 45. The reciprocating block 48 has an arm 50 projectmgfrom one side thereof and presenting a portion in engagement with the leading edge of the stock in a manner to cause the leading edge to be introduced onto the pins 36 of the swinging carriers when the reciprocating1 element 48 is lowered during operation. he reciprocating element 48 is provided with a pivot 51 at its upper end for connection with the pitman 52 which is driven by the eccentric connection 53 on the wheel 54 mounted on the shaft 55.

From the description thus far, it can be seen that as the paper stock is fed from the roll plate 36 and from the shirring plate 45, that the portion so positioned is cut by the reciprocating blade 49 and forced during this movement, downwardly, andis introduced onto the pins 36 ofl the conveyor, the carriers of which at this point of travel are horizontally disposed as shown in Figure 3.

Attention is directed to the fact that the various parts are driven in synchronism so that the reciprocating knife operates during the period at which the feed mechanism of the stock is at rest. The cards thus formed and introduced onto the conveyors are slightly spaced due to the spacing of the carriers on the conveyor. After receiving the cards, the conveyor moves in` a manner to bring them bet-Ween the reciprocating splint cutting mechanism, designated generally 56. The splint forming mechanism is designed to operate upon the individual match cards while they are positioned on and are being conveyed by the' carriers and consequently must be of the type that will not displace the cards bodily durin the cutting operation.

Accordingly, I. gave provided upper and .lower 'cuttitng elements which cooperate, both of which reciprocate. This mechanism .comprises an upper guide 57 and a lower guide 58 in which are mounted the reciproeating heads 59 and 60 respectively. `The upper head is operated by a pitman 61 and eccentric 62 operated by means of the shaft 63 and gear wheel 64. The lower head is reciprocated by means of the pitman 65, eccentric 66 operated by the shaft 67 and gear wheel 68. The gear wheels 64 and (S8 are connected by means of a large intermediate gear 69 which operates to drive both of the .drivengears in the same direction.

It will be noted that there is an idler 70 vprovided between the gear-64 and the gear 71 mounted on the shaft 55 to effect a drive for the reciprocatingknife 49. Mounted on the upper reciprocating head 59 is the upper die 72'1having depending cutting yplates 73 equal in width to one match splint and having an angular cutting face 74 of such shape that it willy act to displace the cut splint in a manner desiredin forming the individual cards withalternate spaced splints as is necessary in the subsequent treating process.

ln like manner the lower head 60 has a die 75 with cutting elements 76 having angular faces 77, the cutting elements ofthe upper and lowerdevices being in staggered relation so that they will be interdigitated when in cooperating relationship. Attention is directed to the fact that the space between each of the cutting blades is just equal to the blade itself or in other words, to the width of the individual match splints so that when the upper and lower blades cooperate, the blades of each die exactly lill the space of the opposite die.

Positioned between the cutting element of the upper head is the resiliently mounted frame element 78, carried by rods 79 and held;

on the reciprocating head 59 in a resilient manner by means of the Vspring 80. The frame'7 8 is provided with an extractor finger 81 having an angular edge 82 exactly' similar to that of 77 on the lower cutting element 7 6.

K belt is pulled at a continuous rate'throughout- (i0 An extractor finger 81 is provided in a space between each of the cuttingV elements 73 .across the widthV of the die 72 so that there will be a yielding extractor in cooperation with each of the cutting elements 7 6 on the lower cutting die 75. Ina like manner a frame 83 is provided on the lower die, carrying ex-` tractors 84 with angular faces 85 and re-.

siliently mounted by means of the springs 86 so as to cooperate with the cutting elements 7 3 on the upper die 72.

Referring now to the cooperating gears 17 and 18 which engage the conveyor belt 29 on opposite sides, these sprockets are driven by suitable mechanism not shown, for imparting intermittent motion thereto, whereas, the

lower sprockets 21 and 22 are driven at a continuous rateof speed. Attention is also directed to the fact that the conveyor belt is l of such length and is so positioned between the pulleys 17, 18, 21 andf22 that slack is provided, immediately at the left hand side of the pulleys 17 and 18 as shown at A and also at the right hand vside of the drive pulleys 21 and 22 as shown at B.

Inasmuch as the continuous feed through the dryer is accomplishedby the continuous feeding operation of the pulleys 21 and 22, the belt is fed through to the right hand vside of these pulleys at a continuous rate and the its entire length all the way to the slack provided at A. Thepulleys 17 and 18 which provide a period of rest equal in time to that of the driving period, must during their driving operation rotate or feed at twice the rate` at which the pulleys 21 and 22 feed, conseand 42 and introduced between the guide elements ina manner to present a small portion in a relation vprojecting beyond the shirring plate in aV manner to be engaged by the reciprocating knife 49. In this position the machine is so timed as; to bring, the stock. S to rest at which time by means of the synchronized'drive-the cutting blade 49to'gether with the arm V are lowered, vcausing the length of one match vcard at the endof the stock to be cut off from the strip and introduced atits edge on ythe pins 3o of thel conveyor-which are at this pointof their travel horizontally disposed.y The conveyor thenthrough its intermittent movement advances so that each card isv brought between the upper and lower cutting 'elements shownat 56 and in this position are brought to .rest.- wherebyby the synchronized drive the cutting elements are caused to operate to form heindividual match splints.

Attention at this p oint is be displaced andy further, that this mechanism renders it possible to maintain the cards in relative spaced relation on the individual carriers without effecting la displacement thereof in'either direction. From this point, the conveyor passes through the intermittently driven feeding pulleys 17 and 18, each directedto the operation of the `extractors which. are Vveryy Vico of which cooperates with the teeth .30 disv pass the belt therebetween to the other side, where the continuous feed commences. `From this point on, the. carriers are free to swing. downwardly,ythe carrier arms being free ofl the Vshelf 34 shownin-Figure 3 andare p ermitted to travelcin the; manner shown in Fig- Vposed on opposite sides of the belt so as to Y ure 2. -In this position the individual-splints are adaptedtolbe .passed through' suitable mechanism for applying the paran and head material and thence through a dryer. of suitable length, after which the cards are extracted from the carriers in any desired manner and the conveyoris returned and passedV through the'feed pulleys 21 and 22 to repeat the operation. From this point on,'the conveyor is fed through the loop providing slack at B and' onto the guide ,element 24 and is returned to the idler sprocket 13 where the operation isduplicated.

, It is to be understood that my machinelmay be of any desired width and accordingly,

match-cards of a length sufficient to makeV any desired numberrof match books may be it? lo^-flrlllng them into cards of match splits when iidarriers and cards are in one plane and ,y Fmoans permitting said carriers and cards to j f "move to a plane at right angles to said first mentioned plane, for subsequent treatment of said cards of match splints.

2. f Ina machine for making cards of match 4splints, means for intermittently advancing -Ii-oonveyor and a `strip of stock material :,ggisinultancously, and along spaced parallel an element operative during the period fmof said [stock and conveyor, moving in path l rpendicular the paths of said stckan conveyor, to successively cut said stock into individual cards and displace each aum V hoidily` during the cutting operation onto f ,y said conveyor.

" L 8. "Ina machine for making cards of match y Iintsfthe combination of intermittently vqncedstrip of stock and a conveyor, re`

c 'means for successively cutting *r-'l i'divdual-cards from said strip of stock a *shear 'plate cooperating with said reciproy l w eating means, and means spaced from said "136i shear plate positioned in the path of said ad- Uing stock and acting as a stop, to deterl' e the length of each portion cut fromsaid and means operating with said recipro- .vltng means for bodily displacing said cards the cutting operating ontosaid conit di' 5%. a machine for making cards of A"liinliksplints, a conveyor comprising a pair.' f^ A ed Hexible elements vhaving sprocket i" positioned in spaced relation on both 'thelein for supporting carriers between 's'lidi ccd iiexible elements. p i512 1a machine of the character described, i l' "50 lalainterxnittently advancing conveyor adapt- *5d to' conve uncut cards of material, cutmeans ocated at a station of said conveyor, having'cooperating means located on opposite sides of said conveyor adapted to re-v ciprocate toward and away from each other andactive to cut said cards to form cards of matdi'splints therefrom.

a f "6.'A machine for making cards of match lA-f" y 'splints comprising a conveyor which moves 3 with continuous motion during a portion of its ftravel and with intermittent movement T2 ,j l lg aportion of its travel, said conveyor `adapted to receive and carry cards of im!! n splints, reci rocating cutting mechaa i 35%- nisin'positioned ad1acentsaid conveyoratthe cutting operation. Y

Missouri, this th Signed at St. Louis, day of May 1927.

noms M. BoGosLoWsKY.

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